Jan. 31, 2007 — BG Medicine (BGM) has announced its participation in an alliance with Merck & Co., AstraZeneca, Royal Philips Electronics and Humana in which the companies have formed the High-Risk Plaque (HRP) Initiative.

Jan. 31, 2007 — Possis Medical, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and distributor of endovascular medical devices, announced yesterday that it has FDA approval to being marketing AngioJet Spiroflex rapid exchange catheter to remove blood clots (thrombus) from coronary arteries.

Jan. 31, 2007 — Researchers said this week that they have found an implantable wireless sensor that monitors blood pressure in an aneurysm sac to be safe and useful in guiding endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).

Jan. 31, 2007 — Physicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have published study results in “Circulation” that link moderate alcohol consumption with reduced risk of heart failure (HF).

Jan. 29, 2007 — Abbott Vascular surpassed Cordis for the first time in December 2006 as the market leader in peripheral stents in the U.S., according to Millennium Research Group's (MRG) Marketrack service.

Jan. 29, 2007 — Toshiba’s Aquilion 64-slice CT and Vantage 1.5T MRI systems received 2006 Best in KLAS awards in the Medical Equipment Leaders category from KLAS Enterprises, LLC.

Jan. 29, 2007 — Radi Medical Systems Inc. says today it has begun the first shipment to customers of PressureWire Certus, a hydrophilic coated pressure wire designed better maneuverability, compatibility and reliability during interventional cardiology procedures.

Jan. 29, 2007 — Novadaq Technologies Inc. and Apple Inc. presented new technologies to about 100 heart surgeons Sunday evening, Jan. 28, in San Diego. Gathering members of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, whose annual meeting is convening at the San Diego Convention Center through Jan. 31, the program featured Novadaq’s SPY Intra-operative Imaging System, a real-time visual imaging device for use during heart bypass surgery. Apple shared how its technologies are being used in medicine and how the iPod is facilitating personal and portable medical media.

iCardiac Technologies, Inc. and Pfizer have into a multiyear research alliance to develop and validate advanced ECG-based cardiac safety biomarkers utilizing the COMPAS technology platform.

The COMPAS technology was developed at the University of Rochester within its Heart Research Follow-Up Program (HRFUP), a premier group of electrocardiology researchers focused on the ventricular repolarization process of the heart, and exclusively licensed to iCardiac.

1. Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital (Phoenix, AZ)
Having embraced digital information as a method of patient and physician instruction, Arizona Heart has been fully integrated with Apple iPod technology. For a year the hospital has used iPods loaded with video programs directed toward patient education.

2. Cabrini Medical Center (New York City, NY)

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